Malaysia vows to locate missing MH370 plane
Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai has expressed confidence that Flight MH370, which disappeared last year, will be located in the Indian Ocean, saying Kuala Lumpur is still committed to finding the passenger plane.
The senior government official further insisted that search efforts for the missing aircraft would continue and that Malaysian authorities were not hiding any information regarding the suspicious incident.
The comments come as Malaysia’s civil aviation department is scheduled to release a provisional report on Sunday, marking the first anniversary of the disappearance of the Boeing 777 passenger jet belonging to Malaysia Airlines.
The aircraft vanished from radars with 239 passengers and crew on board en route from the Malaysian capital city, Kuala Lumpur, to Beijing, the capital of China on March 8, 2014 . Flight MH370 is presumed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean near the coast of Western Australia.
This is while an international search team, led by Australia, is reportedly continuing search operations in southern Indian Ocean, nearly 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) off its western coast.
According to the report, search vessels are concentrating on a 60,000 square kilometer “priority zone.”
“So far, over 26,000 square kilometer of the seafloor, or over 40 percent of the total priority zone, have been searched for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370," said the Malaysian minister on Friday.
He further added that the country had already spent nearly $18 million on the search operation, which is also funded by Australia and supported by China.
Lai also underlined that weather condition in the south of Indian Ocean has improved and that one more naval vessel from Malaysia was expected to join the search operations.
Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia recently declared that they would try out a new tracking system for long-haul flights following the disappearance of flight MH370.
The system reportedly enables planes to be tracked every 15 minutes, more frequent than the current 30 to 40 minutes.
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